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I am content that is a blessing greater than riches and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you. This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.
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Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
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There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.
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It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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